Gerard O’Kane: Lockdown has heightened appetite for football


THE ‘new normal’. It’s a term that is very much part of everyday life right now and most likely will be for the foreseeable future. The ‘new normal’ impacts on every aspect of modern day life whether it is work, social, sporting or otherwise. As the GAA has reopened across the country in the last […]


Gerard O’Kane: GAA provides a silver lining


SO there we have it folks, just like that we have a return to play programme at club level after a spring and early summer of very little optimism. Over the last few weeks, county boards across the country have had their calendars out and have been working on multiple drafts of spreadsheets to circulate […]


Gerard O’Kane: Dublin’s last dance


I WOULD imagine it was just by pure luck that the Netflix show ‘The Last Dance’ was uploaded onto the streaming service when it was. I don’t know if the date was brought forward or the release of two shows per week was pre-planned, but given a vast majority of the world has been in […]


Gerard O’Kane: Make the most of this time and stay positive


GUILT free time – how often do we hear that expression and fully understand what it means? I was having a conversation very recently with someone who had said that many people are struggling at the minute with being out of their routine and having time on their hands with very little or nothing to […]